No Reflection

Author : John Lekner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319236278

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Theory of Reflection by John Lekner Pdf

This book deals with the reflection of electromagnetic and particle waves by interfaces. The interfaces can be sharp or diffuse. The topics of the book contain absorption, inverse problems, anisotropy, pulses and finite beams, rough surfaces, matrix methods, numerical methods, reflection of particle waves and neutron reflection. Exact general results are presented, followed by long wave reflection, variational theory, reflection amplitude equations of the Riccati type, and reflection of short waves. The Second Edition of the Theory of Reflection is an updated and much enlarged revision of the 1987 monograph. There are new chapters on periodically stratified media, ellipsometry, chiral media, neutron reflection and reflection of acoustic waves. The chapter on anisotropy is much extended, with a complete treatment of the reflection and transmission properties of arbitrarily oriented uniaxial crystals. The book gives a systematic and unified treatment reflection and transmission of electromagnetic and particle waves at interfaces. It is intended for physicists, chemists, applied mathematicians and engineers, and is written in a simple direct style, with all necessary mathematics explained in the text.

Author : J.K. Costain,C. Coruh
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080457567

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Basic Theory in Reflection Seismology by J.K. Costain,C. Coruh Pdf

The material in this volume provides the basic theory necessary to understand the principles behind imaging the subsurface of the Earth using reflection and refraction seismology. For reflection seismology, the end product is a "record section" from a collection of "wiggly traces" that are recorded in the field from which information about the properties of subsurface structure and rock can be derived. For the most part, the principles of imaging are the same regardless of the depth to the target; the same mathematical background is necessary for targeting a shallow water table as for investigating the base of the earth's continental "crust" at a depth of 30-50 km.

Author : Gabi Ben-Dor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540713821

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Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena by Gabi Ben-Dor Pdf

This book is a comprehensive state-of-the-knowledge summation of shock wave reflection phenomena from a phenomenological point of view. It includes a thorough introduction to oblique shock wave reflections, dealing with both regular and Mach types. It also covers in detail the corresponding two- and three-shock theories. The book moves on to describe reflection phenomena in a variety of flow types, as well as providing the resolution of the Neumann paradox.

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812988413

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : Hilary Kornblith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191654916

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On Reflection by Hilary Kornblith Pdf

Hilary Kornblith presents a new account of reflection, and its importance for knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity. Philosophers have frequently extolled the value of reflective self-examination, and a wide range of philosophers, who differ on many other things, have argued that reflection can help to solve a number of significant philosophical problems. The importance of reflecting on one's beliefs and desires has been viewed as the key to solving problems about justification and knowledge; about reasoning; about the nature of freedom; and about the source of normativity. In each case, a problem is identified which reflective self-examination is thought to address. Kornblith argues that reflection cannot solve any of these problems. There is a common structure to these issues, and the problems which reflection is thought to resolve are ones which could not possibly be solved by reflecting on one's beliefs and desires. More than this, he suggests that the attempt to solve these problems by appealing to reflection saddles us with a mystical view of the powers of reflective self-examination. Recognition of this fact motivates a search for a demystified view of the nature of reflection. To this end, Kornblith offers a detailed examination of views about knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity in order to better understand the motivations for extolling self-reflective examination. He explores both the logic of these views, and the psychological commitments they involve. In the final chapter, he offers a more realistic view of reflection, which draws on dual process approaches to cognition.

Author : Michael Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351913249

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Organizing Reflection by Michael Reynolds Pdf

Through a series of leading-edge contributions from pre-eminent international scholars in the field, Organizing Reflection makes a stimulating and distinctive contribution to the study of reflection. By doing so, it offers the first shift from the individual reflective practitioner to processes of collective and public reflection. The unique and varied contributions focus on the development of notions such as public reflection, collective reflection, and critical reflection. In doing so, they provide critical insights into new thinking and approaches to the role of reflection in organizations, as well as the conceptualization and delivery of learning and change. Organizing Reflection will be of interest to scholars working in business, professional, management and organization studies, to human development academics, and to scholarly practitioners in organizations.

Author : Eric Gunnar Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Holography
ISBN : UOM:39015086560482

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Design of a Reflection Apparatus for Laser Beam Profile Measurements by Eric Gunnar Johnson Pdf

Author : Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253025852

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Persuasion, Reflection, Judgment by Rodolphe Gasché Pdf

Gasché expounds on Aristotle, Heidegger, and Arendt in “a major interpretative achievement that underscores what is at stake in political thought” (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews). As one of the most respected voices of Continental philosophy today, Rodolphe Gasché pulls together Aristotle’s conception of rhetoric, Martin Heidegger’s debate with theory, and Hannah Arendt’s conception of judgment in a single work on the centrality of these themes as fundamental to human flourishing in public and political life. Gasché’s readings address the distinctively human space of the public square and the actions that occur there, and his valorization of persuasion, reflection, and judgment reveals new insight into how the philosophical tradition distinguishes thinking from other faculties of the human mind. “Here Rodolphe Gasche is at his best: rigorous, scholarly, creative, forceful, laser focused on the issues at stake, learned, thoughtful, and original. He demands much of his readers, but reading his work is rewarding in ways that can be profoundly affecting.” —Dennis J. Schmidt, author of Between Word and Image “Rodolphe Gasche has long been one of the most meticulous readers of texts on the philosophical scene and here he once again offers a master class in how to do philosophy through interpretation.” —Robert Bernasconi, author of How to Read Sartre

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000005488353

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The Poetical Works: Poems of sentiment and reflection. Yarrow revisited. Sonnets composed or suggested during a tour in Scotland, 1833. Evening voluntaries. Poems referring to the period of old age. Epitaphs and elegiac pieces by William Wordsworth Pdf

Author : I. Tsvankin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080446183

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Seismic Signatures and Analysis of Reflection Data in Anisotropic Media by I. Tsvankin Pdf

Following the breakthrough in the last decade in identifying the key parameters for time and depth imaging in anisotropic media and developing practical methodologies for estimating them from seismic data, Seismic Signatures and Analysis of Reflection Data in Anisotropic Media primarily focuses on the far reaching exploration benefits of anisotropic processing. This volume provides the first comprehensive description of reflection seismic signatures and processing methods in anisotropic media. It identifies the key parameters for time and depth imaging in transversely isotropic media and describes practical methodologies for estimating them from seismic data. Also, it contains a thorough discussion of the important issues of uniqueness and stability of seismic velocity analysis in the presence of anisotropy. The book contains a complete description of anisotropic imaging methods, from the theoretical background to algorithms to implementation issues. Numerous applications to synthetic and field data illustrate the improvements achieved by the anisotropic processing and the possibility of using the estimated anisotropic parameters in lithology discrimination. Focuses on the far reaching exploration benefits of anisotropic processing First comprehensive description of reflection seismic signatures and processing methods in anisotropic media

Author : Ratnaguna
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909314764

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Art of Reflection by Ratnaguna Pdf

Drawing on his own experience, and on Buddhist teachings, Western philosophy, psychology and literature, Ratnaguna provides a practical guide to reflection in its many forms. This is a book about reflection as a spiritual practice, about its importance, and about "e;what we think and how we think about it."e;

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UCR:31210015463829

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Analysis of Borehole-radar Reflection Logs from Selected HC Boreholes at the Project Shoal Area, Churchill County, Nevada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lauchlin D. MacDonald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401192392

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John Grote by Lauchlin D. MacDonald Pdf

An objective of this book is to discuss some of the contributions made by John Grote to philosophy. This work is an extension of a dissertation written for the doctorate at Boston University. The author wishes to acknowledge the invaluable assistance in many places to Professor Peter A. Bertocci and the late Professor Edgar S. Brightman both of whom read the entire manuscript in its original form. Also, the author acknowledges the encouraging interest and support of his wife, Helen, whose many suggestions have improved the writing and without whose assistance this work would not have been accomplished. The author assumes complete responsibility for whatever errors or deficiencies appear in the book. All known writings of Grote are listed and the more important ones analyzed. LAUCHLIN D. MACDONALD CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. JOHN GROTE'S LIFE i. Sketch of his life John Grote will remain best known by reason of the thought formu lated in the Exploratio Philosophica, or Rough Notes on Modern I ntellectu al Science. To the philosophical world of his own time he was well known as the teacher who ably held the chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cambridge from r855 until the year of his death, r866, to the Knightbridge Professor, William Whewell whose in succession Philosophy of Science is the subject of at least one chapter of the Exploratio Philosophica. Grote's birthplace was Beckenham in Kent, and the date, May 5, r8r3.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004407114

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Self-reflection in Literature by Anonim Pdf

Self-reflection in Literature provides the first diachronic panorama of genres, forms, and functions of literary self-reflexivity and their connections with social, political and philosophical discourses from the 17th century to the present.

Author : Frank Miller
Publisher : Legendary Comics LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 193727800X

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Holy Terror by Frank Miller Pdf

There's a deadly menace somewhere in Empire City, and The Fixer only has until dawn to save his town - and civilization as we know it! This title features the desperate and brutal quest of a hero as he is forced to run down an army of murderous zealots in order to stop a crime against humanity.